fleshes

Noun

flesh (usually uncountable, plural fleshes)

1. (usually) The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
   • The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.1918, Fannie Farmer, Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game
2. (usually) The skin of a human or animal.
3. (broadly, usually) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
4. (usually) Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
   • Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely / syr and I wille doo hit sayd sir launcelot / Also I charge you that ye ete no flesshe as longe as...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XV
5. (usually) The human body as a physical entity.
   • And the preaſt ſhall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his fleſh, and take awaye the aſſhes whiche the fire of the burntſacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them beſyde the alter, […]1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Leuiticus...
6. (usually) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
   • For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man as the flowre of grasse: the grasse withereth, and the flowre thereof falleth away.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Peter 1:24

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